Peculiar Suicide Attempt

I was socially isolated and bullied pretty bad throughout elementary and middle school. Some of it from the faculty, most of it from the other students.

It came to a head when I was around 12. I was attacked in the hallway between classes by a random kid I'd never met before. And I snapped. Literally saw red. I still clearly remember thinking, "Either he dies, or I do. And I don't care which one."

And I made an honest effort. I didn't manage to lay a hand on the kid, since I knew ###$ all about how to fight. I got hit in the face so many times charging at him that I required reconstructive surgery afterward, with the doctors commenting that it was a miracle none of the bone fragments in my shattered skull ended up in my brain. I tried to struggle free of the teachers who had to drag us apart, knowing full well that I had no chance of winning that fight, because I knew that nothing would change unless this ended with one of us dead.

Apparently I was wrong about that. My injuries were so severe that the kid who'd attacked me ended up expelled and facing criminal charges. The school (who literally used the phrase "boys will be boys") ended up in such legal trouble they couldn't ignore the bullying anymore and had to step in, at least when I was being targeted after that point.

The thing that bothers me the most, to this day, is that nothing changed until I decided that I was okay with dying.

That is why gun rights are so important for minors. Younger children are too dumb to handle guns responsibly, but 12 years of age is old enough, and in your case it was essential. If you had a holstered pistol on you, then you could have just shot the dominance-asserting attacker a few times, reported your act of lethal self-defense to the police, and be done with it.

Male dominance-asserting sociopaths are usually physically stronger and tougher than males of good character, due to the fact that the neuroactive hormone testosterone, and its more-active derivative dihydrotestosterone, impart physical strength and toughness, but also induce the production of the neurotransmitter vasopressin and its v1 receptors in the brain, which cause dominant-aggressive behavior. Furthermore, dominance-asserting sociopaths often prefer to attack people who are younger and smaller than themself. Hence, gun rights are necessary to remove those perverse advantages.

It is not only the bully himself who is responsible for victimizing you, but also all of the people who are opposed to gun rights for minors, and/or support putting minors with contrasting innate character traits into the same schools, and/or are opposed to adult-equivalent criminal accountability (contrasted with a slap on the wrist like detention) for assault and battery (i.e. bullying) perpetrated by minors. Said policies of the status quo make incidents like yours inevitable.

researcher2,

You and I apparently hold similar views regarding rights and criminal responsibility for young people.

YouthRightsRadical wrote:researcher2,
You and I apparently hold similar views regarding rights and criminal responsibility for young people.

Excellent. Then we have similar neuropsychological genetic alleles. Be sure to make many offspring, so as to increase the prevalence of said alleles in the gene pool.

researcher2 wrote:

YouthRightsRadical wrote:researcher2,
You and I apparently hold similar views regarding rights and criminal responsibility for young people.

Excellent. Then we have similar neuropsychological genetic alleles. Be sure to make many offspring, so as to increase the prevalence of said alleles in the gene pool.

Unfortunately, I'm a pedophile, so that plan's probably not going to work out.

YouthRightsRadical wrote:

researcher2 wrote:

YouthRightsRadical wrote:researcher2,
You and I apparently hold similar views regarding rights and criminal responsibility for young people.

Excellent. Then we have similar neuropsychological genetic alleles. Be sure to make many offspring, so as to increase the prevalence of said alleles in the gene pool.

Unfortunately, I'm a pedophile, so that plan's probably not going to work out.

Ah, so that's what your 'YouthRights' angle is about. We don't have similar neuropsychological genetic alleles after all.

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